In 2024, a United Nations monitoring team reported that the relationship between Somalia’s al-Shabaab terrorist group and Yemen’s Houthi rebels…
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India and 10 African countries have completed a first-of-its-kind naval exercise in the Indian Ocean. The six-day drill, known as…
Effective communication is key to ensuring the success of military training events such as Obangame Express 2025, the largest multinational…
Unmanned surface vehicles are becoming increasingly popular in the fight against sea crimes, including illegal fishing. Such vehicles, also known…
Turkey is helping strengthen Somalia’s battle against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and other sea crimes. The two countries in…
Attack drones launched by the Government of National Accord during Libya’s civil war in 2020 reportedly used artificial intelligence (AI)…
From the shores of Eyl, a fishing community in Somalia’s autonomous Puntland State, locals watched with growing anger the lights…
ADF STAFF Ghana in early January bolstered its maritime security capabilities when it commissioned a forward operating base in Ezinlibo,…
The Nigerian Navy pursued the oil tanker MT Heroic Idun into the Gulf of Guinea. Navy officials suspected the ship…
ADF STAFF Even as terrorism cases have declined in East Africa in recent years, the region is experiencing a renewed…